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[quote=Anonymous]It's hard sometimes. Having a lot of money helps. These days it's not even easy to live an hour from work with one income unless it's a very high income. An hour from DC is not that far given transit and traffic!

For those of us without a lot of money or telework, yeah, it's a grind. It does get easier as your kids get older and they can help clean up their own messes or entertain themselves with a book or friends. I've suddenly found myself with free time to read again since my youngest hit kindergarten and is more independent.

And for some of it, you can just do less. My garden is pretty pathetic and we sometimes put off yard work a little too long. I've refused to buy more than two laundry baskets (one for kids, one for adults) because I know it just won't get put away if we don't need an empty basket for the next load. The kids still love to have friends over even though our house is much smaller than most of their friends'; their friends in apartments like being invited but never reciprocate and I'm happy to host.

But yeah, some weeks are still an absolute grind. The worst are weeks you have to work late or have evening meetings. My kids aren't interested in a lot of extracurriculars, they still value free play very very highly, but I think that shift will be tough too. [/quote]

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